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Maggot Mass, the fifth full-length album by Pharmakon on Sacred Bones Records, marks the project’s return after a five-year hiatus. This album sign...

10th anniversary reissue of They Want My Soul - newly expanded, with 11 demos and alternate versions, almost all of them previously unreleased. The...

After 3 years of silence, the Canadian band Nap Eyes have returned with their own meditations on the monstrous and familiar (or the monstrously fam...

Since first forming in 2016, London’s High Vis have steadily polished their palette of progressive hardcore with shades of post-punk, Brit pop, neo...

New Internationale is the new album by Kit Sebastian – purveyors of stunning, contemporary music that fuses Anatolian Psychedelia, Brazilian Tropic...

The Ouroborus - that is, the icon of the snake or dragon eating its own tail - appears to some a statement of the brutality of nature. To others of...

‘What makes Sex Swing so powerful is that they transcend the limitations of rock music. Their sound is so full of possibilities, violence, sexualit...

On the Edge of a Lost and Lonely World, the second album from Rob Marshall’s Humanist project, showcases the vocal talents of a number of iconic ar...

First re-press since the initial 2019 release of critically acclaimed album featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs' lead vocalist Karen O, and Danger Mouse, one...

Chinese American Bear is a C-pop duo, currently based in Seattle, who create eclectic bilingual (English/Chinese) ear candy. Composed of married co...

A twelve-track collection of “cassette-ified” lo-fi psych-pop, Wobble is the eleventh studio album from Black Market Karma and their first on Fuzz ...

Alan Sparhawk has always been a prolific, protean musician. A restless soul eager to explore unfamiliar sonic and psychic terrain. Though he’s obvi...

Like the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is a suffocating, ...

The compositions on this album, written between 2022 and 2024, form a conceptual suite and an observance of the mental dances that we construct to ...

Dunya, the title of Mustafa’s masterfully crafted and breathtakingly tender full-length debut, roughly translates from Arabic to “the world in all ...

In 2008, Smalltown Supersound released this glimpse of Serena-Maneesh's early days. Tweaked and all beautifully pushed to the red. Most of the mate...

Vespertine isn't so much a departure from her previous work as a culmination of the musical distance she's traveled; within songs like the subtly s...

With 2004's Medulla, Bjork's already distinctive musical vision is catapulted into another stratosphere. Using the mouth as the primary instrument ...

By the late '90s, Bjork's playful, unique world view and singular voice became as confining as they were defining. With its surprising starkness an...

Kiiōtō is the love-child of Lou Rhodes, Mercury-nominated singer/songwriter and founder member of Lamb, and multi-platinum songwriter and keyboardi...

Since their debut as Brijean, the project of percussionist/singer-songwriter Brijean Murphy (the percussive heartbeat for live bands like Mitski, P...

"The first and titular song on my latest record, performed on solo alto saxophone, The love it took to leave you is a love letter to self and to so...

Comprised of Clams Baker Jr., Benjamin Romans Hopcraft, Adam J. Harmer, Marley Mackey, Quinn Whalley, and Bleu Ottis Wright, Too Cold To Hold is un...

On 23 August, almost forty years after it was initially released, The Moon and the Melodies by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is being reissued on v...

Love Rudiments is a meditation by Ty Segall on his first love: the drums. Known popularly as a singing guitar player, he generally starts the recor...

Being Dead knows how to make an entrance, within the first several seconds of EELS, the duo’s new record, the bright, hard-strummed guitar line on ...

Arriving in 2022, Irish artist Meryl Streek, was unaware of the impact his clash of experimental electronica and explosive punk would have on the m...

American Standard begins with a shock. Vocalist Michael Berdan stands alone, screaming, “A part of me, but it can’t be me. Oh God, it can’t.” It al...

Nonesuch Records releases Laurie Anderson’s Amelia, the 2024 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient's first new album since 2018’s Grammy-winn...

Dance, No One's Watching is an ode to the sacred, yet joyous act of dancing, an album that musically guides you through a night out in the city, fr...

Fat Dog are the most exciting breakthrough band of the past few years, conjurers of the sort of frenzied and wild live shows not seen in the capita...

With roots in Montreal, the band Cola was formed by ex-Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy. Evan Cartwright, an in-demand session musician a...

On their latest album, Sonido Cosmico, Hermanos Gutiérrez embark on a sonic exploration that defies the conventional boundaries of instrumental mus...

SAM MORTON - the musical duo comprising of singer, songwriter and acclaimed BAFTA award winning actor and director Samantha Morton, and music produ...

Throbbing Gristle revisits TGCD1, long out of print, now available on CD for the first time in 25 years and on vinyl for the first time ever via Mu...

Throbbing Gristle unveils a brand new reissue of The Third Mind Movements, released commercially for the first time on CD and vinyl via Mute. Forme...